Writing Co-Lab

Has your writing hit a plateau? Are you stuck in the murky middle of a larger project? Or maybe you are sitting on perfectly competent stories that still feel like they're missing something? Perhaps your inner voice already knows you've been holding back. Remove the safety net in this high level course for the dedicated fiction writer. This month-long workshop will explore strategies to increase the risk in our writing: destabilizing, unsettling, and pushing our work closer to the line in an effort to excavate its most honest, urgent, and vital pulse. This intimate, supportive workshop will require active participation and thoughtful, sensitive engagement in class and out of class. with an accompanying asynchronous channel for prompts, craft materials and additional community discussion. Although there will be generative opportunities, the focus of this workshop is revision with an eye toward publication. Each student will have the opportunity to receive thorough oral and written feedback (on stories up to 20 pages) 2 times. Limited to 6 people max.

Sara Lippmann is the author of the novels Hidden River and Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Prize, been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Catapult, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she is co-editor of the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible from SUNY Press. She is a founding member of the Writing Co-Lab and the editor-in-chief of Epiphany.